Barbie Doll

. Dinners are being burned all across America, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident depending upon the woman attitude. The tone of this poem is alive, passionate, and angry. The poem feels like a united rebellion of women all over the world who are in a successful or even unsuccessful marriage. The verbs throughout this poem are filled with action. Women are "Burning dinner", grilling husbands, and "spewing out missiles of hot fat" as their "Anger sputters"("What's that smell in the kitchen?" 22, 10, 9). Many women sometimes fell that:
             If she wants to grill anything, it's
             her husband spitted over a slow fire.
             it's a dead rat with a bomb in its belly
             ticking like the heart of an insomniac. ("What's that smell in the kitchen?"13-17).
             These are extremely powerful and violent images. The blame fo
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